Nettle Soup (Self Portrait), 2020, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. / 101.6 x 76.2 cm.

Nettle Soup (Self Portrait), Dale McGrath, 2020, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. / 101.6 x 76.2 cm.

I am always wearing an apron, either for painting or for cooking. I painted this self portrait in the last days of fall in 2020. Nettle Soup is a recipe on the apron front with three rabbits and a soup caldron on a fire.